We participated in Walk to School Day this morning. This was kind of a tough sell initially since, although we walk/bike to school every day already, going to the meeting point meant leaving the house 15 minutes earlier and walking twice as far. I considered driving to the meeting point but rejected that as, er, tacky. (I did see parents pull up in cars and let … Continue reading Walk to School Day

I took the kids today on a geocaching hunt for a cache featuring a foreign coin exchange. We’ve had a couple busts recently on geocaching so they weren’t highly enthusiastic, but it turned out to be a great cache! We left some UK coins, and took a little whistle with a compass in it. The big score was finding a trackable. This special coin had … Continue reading Geocaching for Foreign Coins